Am attempting to construct a "simple" programable configlet in OpManager NCM to SCP a file out to an external server for DR purposes and using the $device.hostname() built-in variable to set the hostname in the file that's written out.

However so far, I either get this variable not translated or if I attempt to esc it, I get the hostname but it's got the esc'ed characters in it.

Base command I'm using is...

$device.execute("copy running-config scp://user:password@ipaddr/Path/to/file/$device.hostname().txt")

But this outputs the filename as $device.hostname().txt not as the actual hostname. If I use ' or ` to escape it, I get the hostname but also these characters.

If I set the $device.hostname() as a variable, e.g.

#set ($variable = $device.hostname())

and use that I get the same result.

Any suggestions?